Meghan Markle was ‘shocked and disappointed’ Prince Harry ‘had very little money’, expert claims

Meghan Markle was “surprised and disappointed” that Prince Harry “had very little money”, a royal expert has claimed.

Actual author Tom Bower appeared on GB News earlier this month, where he spoke to MailOnline’s Dan Wootton about the couple’s early relationship.

Speaking about the Duchess’s misconceptions about the royal family, the author, who penned the 2022 book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, described the former Suits actress as “obsessed with money.”

The expert said: ‘His big surprise and disappointment was that Prince Harry had very little money.

“She had imagined that he would be worth hundreds of millions, if not billions, and now she has to make it up to him.”

Describing how the couple could not afford their current lifestyle as working members of the royal family, the expert added: “She wants to ride in the big Cadillacs, the private jets at the helm.”

‘Right now she needs to look for that kind of thing.’

Elsewhere in the interview, Tom claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s attendance at the coronation has the potential to “ruin” the coronation and “upstage” King Charles.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to be invited to the coronation on May 6, despite the fallout from Harry Spare’s explosive memories.

While they were still senior royals, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were primarily funded by the Duchy of Cornwall inheritance from King Charles.

Following the couple’s decision to leave the firm, it was reported that Charles’s £1.2 billion Duchy of Cornwall estate paid his youngest son around £2.3 million a year on average.

However, the couple said that this sum covered 95 percent of their office expenses.

The remaining five per cent of its annual income came from the taxpayer-funded £82m annual Sovereign Grant, which is given to the most senior members of the royal family.

The £2.4 million redevelopment of Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate was also paid for from this pot, which Prince Harry has paid for ever since.

When they announced they were stepping down as royals, the couple promised in a statement that they wanted to be “financially independent while continuing to support Her Majesty The Queen.”

Months later, the couple signed a deal with Netflix and included their explosive six-part documentary series. The couple were reportedly paid up to £88 million for the show, which hit the streaming service last December.

In December 2020, it was reported that the pair had signed a £30 million podcast deal with Spotify to present their own shows as part of Archewell Audio.

In his explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, Prince Harry said he had to rely on his inheritance in the wake of Megxit.

He said: ‘I have what my mother left me.

“Without that, we wouldn’t have been able to do this.”

It is also reported that Harry inherited around £20 million from his mother, Princess Diana, who died when he was 12 years old. The Queen Mother also left him up to £7 million.

Meanwhile, Meghan has a reported personal fortune of £4 million, mostly from her work as an actress and property in Canada.

Before leaving the series to move to the UK, Meghan was reportedly paid $50,000 for each appearance on Suits and starred in over 100 episodes.

In his book Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, royal biographer Andrew Morton, who wrote Diana: Her True Story, claimed that Meghan began charging £15,000 for each speaking engagement after her UN speech in March 2015.

Describing how Meghan’s ‘sticker price’ increased in line with her celebrity status, the author claims that she was signed to the elite talent agency Kruger Cowne, which represents Cher, Elle Macpherson and Goldie Hawn, around this time.

In her Netflix documentary, Meghan claimed she knew nothing about her soon-to-be boyfriend’s lifestyle and even had to Google the British national anthem.